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"Financial planners tell you to start investing for your retirement early. Obviously, retirement based on financial security is wonderful. But if you don't have the good health to go along with it, you are not going to enjoy the fruits of your labor. If you want a retirement with good health, you need to start working early on your health, just as you do on your finances. Don't wait until you get sick. Prevention is not complicated. Our four pillars of healing that we laid out earlier in this chapter are important. As far as supplements are concerned, you don't need as many as someone with CVD." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"As a personal friend I was aware back in 2000 that Gary would be taking an early retirement in the not too distant future but by the end of 2001, the plunging value of his retirement account meant early retirement was not possible, and he would have to start all over. His retirement still won't come for many years. Enron was America's seventh largest corporation one year before it suddenly began to collapse and had to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The mammoth $77 billion company began 2001 with its stock price at over $80 a share. By October the price was under $40." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"They were on the brink of retirement, and he was suffering from pulmonary hypertension, which had slowed him down a good bit. His illness had made him hidebound, rigid, and unhappy and threatened their dream of an easy retirement. As she worked this stage of the Gearshift, she saw a lock springing open, symbolizing to her that he was being freed from his resentment. You may not get a visual symbol like this; you may get color, sound, even smell, or just a strong feeling. If you get nothing, do not be alarmed." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Obviously, retirement based on financial security is wonderful. But if you don't have the good health to go along with it, you are not going to enjoy the fruits of your labor. If you want a retirement with good health, you need to start working early on your health, just as you do on your finances. Don't wait until you get sick. Prevention is not complicated. Our four pillars of healing that we laid out earlier in this chapter are important. As far as supplements are concerned, you don't need as many as someone with CVD." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Apathy can become a defining characteristic for older folks, and it's particularly important to watch for when people move into retirement communities and nursing homes. Even in the best and homiest facilities, depression and a lack of motivation can set in as people feel they're just waiting to die. I'm familiar with one retirement home that's doing something about this problem by trying to get the residents involved and interested in exercise." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"The unified field theory has been put into retirement," he begins. "It is so difficult to employ mathematically that I have not been able to verify it somehow, in spite of all my efforts."4 It may not be surprising that the science of today doesn't have all the answers. The quantum discoveries of the last century have led to a surprising and radical new way for us to think of ourselves and how the universe works. This novel way of thinking is so radical, in fact, that it flies directly in the face of what science has asked us to believe for nearly 300 years." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Now they were approaching retirement age, and among the wider scientific community most of their work still had never seen the light of day. They were all Christopher Columbus and nobody believed what they'd returned to tell. The bulk of the scientific community ignored them, continuing to grip tightly to the notion that the earth was flat. The space-propulsion activities had been the only acceptable face of the Zero Point Field. Despite their rigorous scientific protocols, nobody in the orthodox community was taking any other discoveries of theirs seriously." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Or, 'I'll be happy when a certain situation occurs—when I graduate from school, when I get that job, when I get married, when we have children, when I get that new house, when the children leave home, when I can retire from that job, if I had more money, if I had planned better for my retirement, if I had more years to live.' This myth of 'I'll be happy when or if can last an entire life. "A lot of people need the approval of others in order to feel good about themselves. They become a system of mirrors, reflecting back what people think we should be, want us or expect us to be." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In fact, we can reinvent both aging and retirement. After all, this was the generation whose activism and energy fed the idealism of the 1960s. If we all take the actions necessary for changing our own lives and advocate for greater societal changes, we can begin to construct a new framework for aging in our culture. "let thy food be thy medicine": can better nutrition keep us vital? This ancient injunction by the Greek father of medicine, Hippocrates, still seems to have commonsensical value today." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Since most of the main characters—residents at a California retirement home—were former actors, the show was quite dramatic, with histrionic individuals involved in elaborate subplots that featured endless sniping and backstabbing and occasional tragedy. During the course of the pilot one of the residents was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, but his group of friends helped him resist the label." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"It's like a retirement plan for your health. Sometimes new patients come in toting shopping bags full of supplement bottles. They will ask which ones they need. Not infrequently, they are spending $400 to $600 a month on supplements and not getting the desired results. For us it's a matter of getting the most for your money. Our supplement program isn't cheap, but it's effective. And not infrequently, our recommendations cost less money than what a new patient is already spending." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"The Lead with Experience Campaign and the Purpose Prize, a three-year initiative to invest in older social innovators by recognizing outstanding achievements, creating a network of people wanting to use their retirement years for the greater good, and channeling funds and assistance to these new pioneers. The MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Breakthrough Award, for ? innovative organizations that tap the passion and experience of people over fifty to improve society. For more info, visit www.civicventures.org." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"All in all, it was a most pleasant spot for a typical retirement home. There was, however, nothing at all typical about this particular home, beginning with its size. Built to stand comparison with the palaces of Egypt and Babylon, it was enormous, the main building alone nearly ten acres in extent, with walls seven hundred feet long and seventy feet high. The house's occupant was likewise atypical, a former soldier who had been, for twenty years, the most powerful man in the known world. Still more remarkable was the fact that the palace was occupied at all." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"In America, seniors tend to live apart from their children and grandchildren, often sent off to retirement homes when they become unable to care for themselves. But that rarely happened here. A combination of family duty, community pressure, and genuine affection for elders kept centenarians with their families until death. This gave people over 80 a huge advantage: They received immediate care when injured or ill, and perhaps most significantly, felt loved and a sense of belonging. A happy by-product was that grandparents stayed involved in children's lives." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"It wouldn't pay off his debts and wouldn't rescue his father's spent retirement funds. He didn't want to accept the offer. Sam's lawyer and the judge both advised Sam that it was a good deal; he might lose the case entirely and receive nothing if it went to the jury. I had to agree with them. Reluctantly, Sam accepted the settlement and the trial ended in disappointment for him." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The workers also agreed to replace their pension plan with a 401 (k) retirement plan, a step taken by a growing number of American companies to save money on one type of employee benefit while they spent ever more on health care. The problem came down to the numbers. In 2006 an American employer paid an average health insurance premium of $ 11,500 for a family of four. That was an increase of 87 percent since 2000. Between those years overall inflation rose by just 18 percent." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"If you want a retirement with good health, you need to start working early on your health, just as you do on your finances. Don't wait until you get sick. Prevention is not complicated. Our four pillars of healing that we laid out earlier in this chapter are important. As far as supplements are concerned, you don't need as many as someone with CVD. Follow these supplement recommendations for prevention: Supplement Your Daily Dosage Comments High-potency Follow label Avoid one-a-day formultivitamin/mineral instructions. mulas." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"FSH and LH persist at high levels throughout menopause, while your ovaries go on a well-deserved retirement, no longer producing monthly cycles of progesterone or estrogen, and leisurely chugging out about one-half as much testosterone. We can learn from this aging process. What Is Estrogen? Before we go into too much detail about how to use estrogen, let's talk about what she is exactly. You know from chapter 3 that your natural estrogen is not the same as horse estrogen found in mare's urine, but there are many misconceptions about natural estrogen." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"His father's retirement savings?the fruits of their family business—were used up in his criminal defense and in his conflicts with his wife over control of his business. He was destitute and unable to work. His mental processes were so disordered that he qualified for a diagnosis of Xanax-induced Persisting Dementia and would never again be able to work at a physically or mentally demanding job." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"My next charge is for baby boomers to devote their later years to resisting two commonly held stereotypes about us: (1) that we are individualistic and selfish, and (2) that old age and retirement constitute an inevitable decline that brings about the cessation of work, increasing disability, deterioration of social networks, and a descent into oblivion. We can challenge both of these stereotypes by staying engaged in community and by giving ourselves to others—especially the generations that will follow us." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Marital reconciliation (45 points) and retirement (also 45 points) are only half as stressful as the death of your spouse. Minor violations of the law: 11 points. Trouble with the boss: 23. Christmas: 12. But sexual difficulties are less stressful than pregnancy (40 points versus 39). A mortgage over $10,000 is worse than a son (or daughter) leaving home. Trouble with your in-laws is as stressful as "outstanding personal achievement" which is only slightly more stressful than if "wife begins or stops work."..." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"I'm familiar with one retirement home that's doing something about this problem by trying to get the residents involved and interested in exercise. University Living, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has a fitness center with aerobic and strength-training machines designed to accommodate people who aren't so agile anymore, even those who use walkers to get around. The gym is called Preservation Station. And they've hired an exercise physiologist who specializes in aging to run group classes and serve as a personal trainer for the able-bodied among their seventy residents." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "PHYSICAL EXERCISE: STEADY DOES IT For anyone over sixty, I recommend exercising almost every day. In retirement, why not? Six days a week would be ideal, but make it fun rather than work. It's a good idea to use a heart rate monitor. They're invaluable for keeping track of your progress, and this is both motivating and reassuring. You're not left wondering whether you've done enough, at the proper intensity." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"It's like an individual retirement account. The sooner you open a retirement account, the healthier your retirement will be, financially. It's the same with ultraprevention: The sooner you start working on it, the healthier your retirement will be, physically. We recently saw a woman named Mona who told the sad tale of her daughter Angela, a twelve-year-old with a weight problem so out of control that Mona couldn't find any clothes to fit her. Mona had to buy Angela adult women's dresses that, too long, needed alterations and never truly looked good on her." - Mark Hyman, M.D., Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"Nearing retirement, Block is unusually thoughtful about the limits of her field and disarmingly candid. "It's a mess," she said, speaking not of the FFQ itself but of the various formulae and algorithms being used to correct errors in the data. "Because if the energy [i.e., the reported calorie consumption] is off, then the nutrients are off too. So if you're going to correct for calories, do you then also correct for . . ." She paused and then sighed. "No, it's a mess." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Examples include problems associated with entering school, leaving parental control, starting a new career, and changes involved in marriage, divorce, and retirement." Or, let's say a recent dispute with her daughter is what is troubling Julie, with: parent-child relational problems: "A pattern of interaction between parent and child (e.g., impaired communication, overprotection, inadequate discipline) that is associated with clinically significant impairment in individual or family function or the development of clinically significant symptoms in parent or child." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "John has spent much of his retirement writing about patients as people rather than carriers of symptoms, and teaching colleagues to do the same. John's transformation has not always been well received by colleagues. After he gave one of his newer papers at a scientific meeting in New York, a psychiatrist said: "But, John, you used to do such good work!" This negative reception is not surprising. Listening to patients cuts against the establishment grain. We live in an age of experts, where we cede control of our bodies and our being to others." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"After the second time he suggested that David and I "go to hell," I gingerly commented to his daughter Maria that perhaps he'd be better off in a retirement home. "That would dishonor my family!" she retorted sternly. "Moreover, he would not be happy there." Is there a connection between respecting elders and longevity? Absolutely. Seniors who live at home are more likely to get better care and remain engaged. In Sardinia, they are expected to help with childcare and contribute to the functioning of the household. They have strong self-esteem and a clear purpose. They love, and they are loved." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Getting married is 3 points more stressful Rank Life event Mean value 1 Death of spouse 100 2 Divorce 73 3 Marital separation 65 4 Jail term 63 5 Death of close family member 63 6 Personal injury or illness 53 7 Marriage 50 8 Fired at work 47 9 Marital reconciliation 45 10 retirement 45 11 Change in health of family member 44 12 Pregnancy 40 13 Sex difficulties 39 14 Gain of new family member ." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

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